Patriotic

A cloned boyband co-opts an Elizabethan madrigal to express its heartbreak over lost love and examine representations of masculinity in contemporary pop music.

Cruising an enchanted forest, a mirror-masked flâneur encounters a series of oracles, each with forgotten wisdom to impart to him through song. Borrowing the words and voices of gay elders from religious and mystical scholar Andrew Harvey to British essayist Quentin Crisp to founding Radical Faerie Harry Hay, The Legacy weaves together a spiritual manifesto for queer men, reigniting a battle cry for personal and collective metamorphosis.

Using the structure and duration of a pop song, artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay comments on the pervasiveness of communication in “the information age” at the turn of this century. The video also acts as a reflection on the virtual reality we experience via innumerable screens today.

Forty years after the release of Rosa von Praunheim's film, NICHT DER HOMOSEXUELLE IST PERVERS, SONDERN DIE SITUATION IN DER ER LEBT, a group of men assemble to review, rewrite and restage its legendary final scene. THE ROSA SONG combines dialogue from the original film with challenging new ideas about gay male life in Germany and internationally, concluding with a rousing musical manifesto that breathes new life into this 1970s classic.